From Deseret News archives:
Hiring of senator's son drawing fire
Kane development post funded by state money
Kelly Stowell, son of Sen. Dennis Stowell, R-Parowan, was hired last week as a special consultant/executive director for southwestern Utah's Center for Education, Business and the Arts, located in Kanab. Sen. Stowell represents Kanab and surrounding counties and supported the funding for CEBA.
In addition to his base salary, Kelly Stowell can earn another $20,000 if certain goals are met over the next year, said Christina Schultz, chairwoman of CEBA.
A number of state senators received an e-mail Tuesday complaining about Kelly Stowell's hiring. A July 14 story in The Spectrum, a St. George newspaper, has on its Web site a posted comment that makes the same allegations as the e-mail: that Kelly Stowell is unqualified for the position and that Sen. Stowell helped get CEBA a $125,000 grant funded by the 2008 Legislature that provided the money to hire a new consultant/executive director.
Schultz, who is a vice president at Dixie State College, which is also helping CEBA with funding, said perhaps the complaints about Stowell's hiring are coming from "disgruntled" people who applied for the job but didn't get it. She said between 25 and 30 people applied for the position, but Kelly Stowell was the unanimous pick.
Kelly Stowell's hiring was appropriate, she said, because he was the best candidate, even though he is relatively young. Schultz said he "is probably about 25 years old."
Kelly Stowell couldn't be reached for comment Tuesday.
Schultz said the CEBA idea has been growing for several years, and the Legislature has provided money before for the fledgling three-way effort by Kanab, Kane County and Dixie College to re-energize the Kane County economy. That would be done by educating its citizens for modern jobs, encouraging conferences, retreats and seminars, and developing more tourism and filmmaking around Kanab, where Hollywood Westerns were often shot in the 1950s and 1960s.
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